Palestine Museum of Natural History
We announce the launch of the website and the associated facebook and twitter for the new Palestine Museum of Natural History. Thanks to our volunteers: webmaster Basil and server logistics….
Category: News
West Bank’s Wadi Fukin big loser in newest Israeli land grab
More than 25% of the land newly confiscated in the West Bank belongs to the village of Wadi Fukin. Residents fear the likely outcome of being completely surrounded by Israeli settlements while gearing up to fight this expected loss of land, property and livelihood.
Sixty nine percent of Gaza schools damaged by Israeli assaults
Almost 69 percent of government and UN schools in the Gaza Strip were damaged by Israeli assaults. West Bank students began their school year in solidarity with Gaza counterparts. And will Israel begin its school year as scheduled despite opposition from Israel’s south?
Israel invests millions in occupied Golan Heights settlement college
An Israeli college in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights is offering a wide range of financial incentives to prospective students in order to increase its enrollment, according to a recent….
Video: Israeli soldiers fire tear gas at 6-year-old children on their way to school
The new school year started four days ago in the occupied West Bank, and Israeli soldiers have fired tear gas and hurled stun grenades at Palestinian elementary school students on….
Israel approves Jewish yeshiva in heart of East Jerusalem
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israel’s Jerusalem municipality has approved plans to build a Jewish religious school in the heart of occupied East Jerusalem, Palestinian activists and Israeli media said. The Ohr….
Anti-war academics hold conference at Tel Aviv University
In response to Tel Aviv University’s recent letter “embrac[ing] the security forces” and threatening disciplinary action against students and employees expressing “hurtful and extremist statements” in social media, the university’s….
“I don’t like you, death” — Samih al-Qasim’s final poem
The summer sun beat down on Thursday, 21 August as thousands of Palestinians set out on a silent march in al-Rama, honoring the recently deceased poet and activist Samih al-Qasim. ….
“Gaza’s 9/11”: Israel destroys high-rise building in Gaza – video
In what many Palestinians are calling “Gaza’s 9/11,” Israeli warplanes today destroyed the 12-story “Zafir 4” residential tower in Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa neighborhood. This video captures the moment. It….